Women's Hockey Asia Cup Highlights: India fall short in final Action - Updates, Blog
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Women's Hockey Asia Cup Highlights: The Indian women’s hockey team finished as runners-up after a 1-4 defeat to China in the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup 2025 final in Hangzhou on Sunday.
Navneet Kaur was the lone scorer for India while Zixia Ou (20'), Hong Li (41'), Meirong Zou (51') and Jiaqi Zhong (52') scored for China.
With this win, China gets a direct qualification for the 2026 FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup, to be held in Belgium and the Netherlands.
India, however, will have to go through the qualifiers.
As it happened:
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China wins the ticket to 2026 FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup, to be held in Belgium and the Netherlands.
India finish runner-up at the Women’s Asia Cup 2025 in China on Sunday.
China produced a dominant second-half performance to defeat India 4-1 in the final. This is China's third Asia Cup title as the team joins Japan and Korea as three-time champions.
Navneet Kaur is the lone scorer for India while Zixia Ou (20'), Hong Li (41'), Meirong Zou (51') and Jiaqi Zhong (52') score for China.
It's party time for China as Meirong Zou finds the gap between Indian goalkeeper's legs in the 51st minute.
China returns again with another goal in the 52nd minute.
And India now trails 1-4 with a blink of an eye.
A lot depends on how India performs in these last 15 minutes!
A tense quarter. India started off well with a PC but Hong Li's counter goal shifted the momentum for China. India is putting in their effort but China is too quick with their counters. India trials 1-2.
Can India find the equaliser?
India nearly pulled ahead with a smart penalty corner variation, but couldn’t convert. China responded instantly with a blistering counter. Hong Li picked up the ball, charged down the left, and unleashed a powerful shot past the Indian keeper Bichu. China leads 2-1.
The match is poised equally with both teams having a goal each.
India had only 3 circle penetrations (with 2 coming in Q1).
China had 9 circle penetrations (5 in Q2) showing sustained attacking pressure.
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